Shade-hanger.



No. 831,027. PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

L. T. ALTON.

SHADE HANGER.

PPLIOATION FILED AUG.30.1904.

' THE NORRIS PETERS c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed August 30.1904. Serial No. 222,730.

To all run/0m it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEE T. ALTON, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade- Hangers, of which the following is a specificatlon.

This invention embodies an improvement in hangers for shades, curtain-poles, and analogous trimmings and such invention contemplates the provision of such hangers with means integral therewith for holding such brackets or hangers in place.

An application of the invention is disclosed by the accompanying sheet of drawings, whereon Figure 1 illustrates a pair of curtain-brackets provided with the integral securing devices. Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate elevational views of the same. Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate a bottom plan view thereof, and Fig. 6 illus trates a modified form of the securing devices.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the figures.

It will be observed that that class of brackets which are at the present time in vogue are provided at their base portion with two holes, through which tacks, screws, or nails are driven to hold them in place. It is also obvious that it is often difficult to apply this class of brackets, especially in places where there is not much room to operate, mainly because it is difficult to hold the screw, nail, or tack in place prior to driving the same. Another disadvantage of such devices resides in the fact that the holes through which the tacks, nails, or screws are driven have heretofore always been made in alinement, so that when such screws, nails, or tacks are driven into the wood the strain upon the latter, being also in alinement, tends to split the wood, which eventually re leases its hold upon the fastening device, whereupon the hanger falls out of place.

Such disadvantages as are herein named, together with other obvious disadvantages characteristic of the present classes of structures, are overcome by this invention, as will become more apparent by reference to the following detailed description. I

In the forms illustrated the brackets may comprise the usual hanger 7, having a base 8,

formed by bending a portion of the hanger substantially at right angles to said hanger,

and the latter may be provided in one in-- stance with an eye 9 to receive the spindle of a roller and in the other instance with a jaw 10 to receive the head of a roller, and, as is obvious, to avoid the shade from scraping against the wall of the hanger 7 such eye 9 and jaw 10 may be placed in raised portions 11 and-12, as seen, for instance, in Fig. 1.

The base 8 in the present instance is pro vided with a pair of nails 13 and 14, respectively, or other suitable holding devices, which are formed integral with and preferably from the same metal as the base 8, and according to. the principle of my invention I have designed to strike up these retainers 13 and 14 from the material of the base 8, thus leaving openings 15 and 16, as seen, for in stance, in Figs. 4 and 5. The configuration of these retainers may of course be of any suitable character, and, as shown, for instance in the modified form, Fig. 6, such retainers may be corrugated, as at 17, for the purpose of more securely holding them in place after they have been driven into the wood.

As will be noted, one of the features of this invention is that I preferably stamp these re tainers out of the base in such a manner that one, as 13,is located in one corner of the base, while the other, as 14, is located in that corner of the base obliquely across from that of 13. In this way the retainers are located on opposite sides of the central line X X, Fig. 5,

of the base, and when driven into the wood such strain of the latter as'results from the piercing action of these retainers does not come in the same plane, and therefore the wood is not so apt to split.

A further feature characteristic of the device is that these retainers being integral with the base the latter operates as a support for them when the bracket is driven into place and that one retainer plus the base effects a reinforcement for the other, so that it is impractical for these retainers to pull out of place unless the strain should be in a plane parallel with them and midway between them. In other words, it is impractical to pull the hanger out of place by a downward pull on the hanger portion 7.

A further advantage of this device is that the base 8 may be used as the head for driving the. retainers into place and that one or two severe blows upon such base will drive both retainers simultaneously.

Having thus described my invention, I claim A shade-bracket comprising a plate of sheet metal bent up at a right angle along one of its longer edges, a pair of narrow elongated nailing-strips projecting respectively from the base in proximity to the opposite sides adjacent the hanger-portion edge, the

strips being formed by partial severance and bending down from the base perpendicular thereto, the lines of severance of the strips extending in parallelism with the hangersupporting edge of the base, one of the nailing-strips projecting from the base at a place in close proximity to one edge of the hanger portion, and the other'nailing-strip projecting from the base at a place located a short distance removed from the opposite side of the hanger. v

Signed at Nos. 9 to 15 Murray street, New York city, New York, this 26th day of August, 1904.

7 LEE T. ALTON.

Witnesses FRED. W. BARNACLO, FRED. J. DOLE. 

